Prabuddha Bharata or Awakened India

This idea of the futility of objective remedies is well epressed in the Upanishads in the Vajnvalkya--Matreyi Sambad in the following words: Now when the drum is being beated the external sounds are incapable of being controlled but the sound is cotrolled when the drum or the beater of the drum is seized." " Just as when the conch is blown the external sound is incapable of being co [...] It is the shining ftrth of the native power of the soul and not the consciousness of strength arising out of a clash of powers. [...] Him the Brahman conquers who thinks the Brahman to be separate from the Brahman him the Kshatriya conquers who thinks the Kshatriya separate from the Brahman all beings conquer him who thinks all beings separate from Brahman." But if the apprehension of the forms does not bar from my view the knowledge of the generalised unity if the knowledge of the jar or pot does not hide from me the knowl [...] The song of the lark the noisy jays the hammering of wood-peckers the soft whistling of quail in near-by canyons the barking of ooyotes"158 PRABUDDHA BHARATA juLY and the wind playing through the trees shrieking about the meditation_ cabin; or furiotiMy assaulting tents causing the guy-ropes to strain in resistance as their slack was taken up first on one side and then on the other —all thes [...] In dreams Buddhi by itself takes on the role of the agent and the like owing to various desires of the waking state while the supreme Atmart shines in its own glory —with Buddhi as its only superimposition the witness of everything and is not touched by the least work that the Buddhi does.